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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990430
Author:LLOYD SACHS
Its top vote-getter, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams, is read less than James Joyce's Ulysses. It snubs writers with Hispanic and Asian backgrounds. And while recognizing Truman Capote's "nonfiction novel," In Cold Blood, it omits two Norman Mailer works in that newfangled genre, Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song.
But for all that, the Modern Library's list of the 20th century's 100 greatest nonfiction English-language books, announced Thursday, gives off only a whiff of controversy compared to the steep odor of its stodgy 1998 fiction list (topped by Ulysses, but ...
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